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...facts and conditions of U. S. aid were less important than its shift from worried apathy into tentative action. For weeks Herbert Hoover, urging aid specifically for the small nations of Poland, Finland, Norway, Holland, Belgium, has been preaching that U. S. ingenuity can somehow find a way to feed Hitler's victims in conquered countries without aiding Adolf Hitler...
This is a Brooklyn classroom. It is nearly midnight. Since early morning these machines have been humming, training men for U. S. industrial defense. This shift, the lobster trick, started at 10:30 p.m. At 2 the men will stop for coffee; at 5 a.m. they will yield their machines to the next shift...
...were for capital goods. For the first time in more than a decade, industry's prime mover-capital-goods expansion-agitated the indexes again. The steel rate soared from 60% of capacity (April) to 92% in September. At 11:30 p.m., on Dec. 9, steelworkers finishing the second shift also finished an era. They cast the years 60,835,000th ton of ingots, and thereby put 1940 ahead of the previous peak steel year of 1929. The FRB production index, its base broadened by FRB statisticians in August, touched its all-time high two months later, kept on going...
Commented Dr. George Gallup: "The shift that has taken place in American thinking may be an important factor in coming U. S. decisions regarding aid to Britain...
...clinch his charge of Washington's shiftiness, Knollenberg digs out pre-revolutionary correspondence of Washington with Royal Lieut. Governor Dinwiddie of Virginia, a letter to a contemporary historian in which Washington tries to shift the blame for the loss of Fort Washington to Congress and General Greene, letters showing that Washington engaged in shady land deals. Knollenberg also claims that Washington did not, as he implied, lose the Battle of Brandywine because General Gates refused to return a borrowed corps. Washington did not request Gates to return the corps until 13 days after the Brandywine defeat. There are also...